

Intimate. Explicit. Uninhibited.
With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen with Brando himself as your guide, the film will fully explore the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon's perspective, entirely in his own voice. No talking heads, no interviewees, just Brando on Brando and life.
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Earnest, grave, contemplative and character-led.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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Cast
- Marlon BrandoSelf (voice) (archive footage)
- Stella AdlerSelf (archive footage)
- Bette DavisSelf (archive footage)
- Montgomery CliftSelf (archive footage)
- Anna KashfiSelf (archive footage)
- Dick CavettSelf (archive footage)
- Francis Ford CoppolaSelf (archive footage)
- Konstantin StanislavskiSelf (archive footage)
- Burt ReynoldsSelf (archive footage)
Crew
- Stevan RileyDirector
- Stevan RileyWriter
- Peter EttedguiWriter
- Ole Bratt BirkelandDirector of Photography
- Stevan RileyEditor
- George ChignellProducer
- R.J. CutlerProducer
- John BattsekProducer
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